The Roman soldiers were still puzzled: "Will you really be rewarded for exceeding that record?" ”

The Tang soldier replied easily: "Of course, because the reward was issued by our willow horse, it must be counted." ”

Now, not only the open space, but also many of the surrounding wastelands were constantly trying to bid for guns, and the Roman soldiers even lent the javelins borrowed from the Tang people to the slaves to practice.

The Tang soldiers all understood this truth.

Thousands of dollars buy horse bones, this allusion has almost been heard as long as you know the words.

The Tang people understand, it doesn't mean that the Romans understand, let alone those slaves.

The literacy rate of the Tang soldiers brought by Liu Mu reached 90 percent, and everyone could write their own names and speak about 100 words of everyday Greek language.

After staying here for a while, more than 40% of them can speak more than 500 sentences of everyday language.

However, about the allusion of buying horse bones for a daughter, the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty will not talk nonsense.

On the fourth day, a man of the same height as a Datang soldier, with particularly white skin and blue eyes, successfully surpassed Gao Hu in the distance of throwing guns, and surpassed all three guns.

Then, a small man with bronzed skin and about forty years old also surpassed Gao Hu in the distance of fifty paces of accurate throwing of guns and short shots.

The two men were brought to Yanagi.

For countless slaves, there was enough wealth for anyone to live an aristocratic life.

Even if it is divided equally between two people, it is a huge wealth.

Liu Mu looked at the two of them, and after staring at them for a while, Liu Mu suddenly said, "Go and prepare another one, and give each of them a reward." Then get ready, let's play the next one. ”

After saying that, Yanagi got up and left.

Nothing was asked and nothing was said to the two record-breakers.

Two copies of the exact same reward were issued, and the two slaves, who had really received the gold, pearls, and silk, were stunned.

They were slaves, they had no property rights.

So what will happen next, will they be released?

Rome had a tradition of freeing slaves as early as the Western Roman period, and during the Roman Republic, the number of slaves released every year was as high as 16,000, and these people were Roman civilians, they were not citizens but civilians, of course, civilians could also become slave owners, but there was no possibility of politics and military officers.

At this time, Liu Mu had returned to the resting place, and after sitting down, he said to the guards beside him, "Go and investigate if any of these slaves have special talents." ”

"Yes." The guard didn't leave after answering, and asked, "Lang Jun, I found that the two slaves who received the reward today are literate and probably have read." ”

"It is not surprising that in Rome it is normal for slaves to be more knowledgeable, more talented, and more cultivated than many of the nobles of Rome. When they attack a city, they turn the entire city into slaves and sell them as spoils, and so do others when they attack Rome. ”

"Understood, let's go and arrange an investigation." The guards retreated.

There is one more thing that Liu Mu did not say to the guards, that is, the two slaves must have been generals, generals of the enemy country of Rome.

It is impossible for a person who has not undergone professional training to throw a javelin to that perverted distance, it is not a matter of strength, first skill, and then strength.

In just one day, Liu Mu, who had already made full preparations, built ten obstacle courses with a length of 500 steps, that is, 750 meters long in later generations.

All slaves, both men and women, can come and try, as long as they run to the satisfaction of the Tang people, they will be rewarded, the content of the reward sounds very ordinary, just five consecutive days of high-quality Tang army food.

You must know that the food of the Tang army was envied even by the Roman soldiers.

Not just because of the quantity, but because of the quality, just smelling those smells makes your mouth water.

Half a month later, Liu Mu actually selected more than nine thousand people. Seventy percent of the slaves here were captured soldiers, two thousand of them were Persian soldiers, and more than a thousand were Slavs from the city-states of Ancient Rus.

The issue of payment that needed to be increased was handed over to Jiang Ke to negotiate with the Roman Senate.

The two slaves who were the first to be rewarded finally had a chance to meet Willow a month after receiving the gold coins.

The better food standards for a month have made them look more energetic.

"Khmelits. A good cavalry commander happened to encounter a Roman army after being trapped due to a heavy rainstorm because of logistical baggage, and then you and your troops were defeated and captured without supplies, and your family did not pay a ransom for you, but divided your property. ”

"Captured, the rest do not know." Hermelia replied with a very humble answer.

Liu Mu motioned for the two to chat with him while eating, and then said: "I am sorry to tell you that the city was breached, and all the people in the small city became slaves, because the defenders of the city thought they were very proud, and went out of the city to meet the enemy but did not find the enemy, and the Romans took the opportunity to capture the city and then turned their heads to surround the defenders." ”

"Stupid fat man."

Hearing this reaction, Liu Muxin said, this person really knows the situation in his hometown.

"So do you know Turkic?" After Liu Mu finished speaking, the person next to him said it again in Turkic.

Khmelitz nodded: "Understand a little." ”

"Cossacks!"

Hearing this word, a proud smile was evident on Khmelits' face.

The Cossacks were not a people in this era, they were the enemies of the Turkic expeditions to the west, and they generally referred to a large group of people, including many different peoples, who were of one race, the Slavs.

Cossacks mean free people, brave people.

This was a compliment from the Western Turks to their enemies.

"You can be a free man, or you can stay and fight for me as my general. There are two final results of the battle, one is that you die in battle, and the other I will give you a piece of land, as long as your merits are enough, then it is not impossible to have a large land equivalent to Alexandria, and you can become a lord. ”

Khmelits stood up at the same time as the other. The other understood aristocratic Greek because he was also a nobleman.

"I owe my allegiance to you." Khmelitz thought about it a lot during the month, and at this point he decided that this was his only option. He has seen the strength of the Tang people, the soldiers are elite, the logistics are strong, and the weapons are excellent.

Moreover, it has a strict military system, a strict meritorious system, and a strict social system.

It can be said that in the eyes of Khmelitz, Eastern Rome is not qualified to be compared with the Tang Empire.